Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Destruction of cancer skin growth of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth, 0.6-1.0 cm
Based on 126–1,260 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$23
Average
$976
Median
$435
High
$42.4k
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| 1 | Sonora Community Hospital Sonora, CA | $346 | $672 | $1.3k | 194% | 20–200 | $25 – $8.4k |
| 2 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $661 | $589 | $153 | 26% | 14–140 | $61 – $734 |
| 3 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $1.2k | $1.0k | $566 | 54% | 11–110 | $73 – $1.8k |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $110 | $286 | $722 | 253% | 10–100 | $56 – $4.1k |
| 5 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $129 | $198 | $283 | 143% | 9–90 | $53 – $1.7k |
| 6 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $193 | $186 | $155 | 83% | 6–60 | $0 – $458 |
| 7 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $236 | $234 | $2 | 1% | 6–60 | $231 – $236 |
| 8 | Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, IN | $748 | $748 | $536 | 72% | 6–60 | $212 – $1.3k |
| 9 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $218 | $255 | $117 | 46% | 6–60 | $52 – $662 |
| 10 | Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire 54703-5270 | $372 | $432 | $180 | 42% | 4–40 | $68 – $784 |
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